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APU

PC Engines APU boards are single board computers with 3 Gigabit ethernet ports, a powerful AMD64 APU and Coreboot firmware. FreedomBox images built for AMD64 machines are tested to work well for APU1D and APU3B models and are expected to work also well on the other, very similar versions.

Important: Read general advice about hardware before building a FreedomBox with this single board computer.

Similar Hardware

Although untested, the following similar hardware is also likely to work well with FreedomBox.

• Using amd64 image:

  • apu1c

  • apu1c4

  • apu1d4

  • apu2b2

  • apu2b4

  • apu2c0

  • apu2c2

  • apu2c4

  • apu3a2

  • apu3a4

  • apu3b4

Installation

FreedomBox disk images for this hardware are available. Follow the instructions on the download page to create a FreedomBox SD card, USB disk, SSD or hard drive and boot into FreedomBox. Pick the image meant for all amd64 machines.

An alternative to downloading these images is to install Debian on the APU and then install FreedomBox on it.

An installation manual tested on the APU3B is available on ?GitHub, including flashing with UEFI-BIOS

Networking

The first network port, the left most one in the above picture, is configured by FreedomBox to be an upstream Internet link and the remaining 2 ports are configured for local computers to connect to.

Availability

PCEngines announced the phase-out of these boards in June 2023.

In 2024 Dasharo announced the support of APU-boards : coreboot + SeaBIOS and coreboot+UEFI.

• Price: 110 - 170 USD (depending on the board and supplier)

• PC Engines

• Full list of suppliers

Hardware

• Open Hardware: No

• CPU: AMD G series T40E; GX-412TC, 1 GHz quad core (depending on model)

• RAM: 2 GB DDR3-1066 DRAM - 4 GB (depending on model)
• Storage: SD card, External USB, mSATA module
• Architecture: amd64
• Ethernet: 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports

• WiFi: wle200nx / wle600vx / wle900vx miniPCI express wireless modules

• SATA: 1 mSATA-module and 1 SATA

Non-Free Status

• Non-free blobs required: No

• Boot firmware: Coreboot

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